Posted on 03/03/2014 8:18:07 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Raise your hand if you’ve ever walked smack into something or someone while staring down at your smartphone? Yeah, you. You know who you are, and you’re far from alone. We’re guilty of walking and texting, too.
Fear no longer, distracted, device-gazing zombie walkers. Help for unabashed, small-screen addicts like us is on the way -- to the Google Play store next month, actually. The industrious geniuses at New York City’s One Llama Labs have developed a hyper sound-sensitive Android app called Audio Aware.
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How about when they are riding a bicycle?
I saw an “adult” male texting with both hands while on his bike.
Somewhere I have the photograph I made of same and will endeavor to find and post it here.
there are some people whom no app in the world could make any safer than they are
We saw a pedestrian texted walk directly into the front stone face wall of a big city building. Broke their face as I recall. Ambulance Hospital. Doubt they finished their text message.
I like to freak em out by honking my horn. Talk about ready made victims for “the knockout game”.
But bicyclists are saving the environment, man. better than those metal box gas guzzlers. (sarcasm).
ahaha this clown was decked out in SPANDEX on a bike that cost several times that of the first car I owned...
a real lance armstrong wanna be.
what does one tell the doctor after a two wheeled texting accident?
How about Segway users?
now that I havent seen as yet but Im thinking texting on a segway would be somewhat safer than texting on a bike...
Balance would have to be minimally better that on a bike due to the layout of the wheels and the fact that Ive never seen a segway exceed a couple of miles an hour.
Oh man, a segway user texting, while riding... how about across train tracks into heavy traffic... in front of a cop car... more could be done with this... what a photo op...
Electronic pacifier PING!
Darwin award PING
Anyone got a picture of a Segway user with a Starbucks coffee in one hand, Google glasses, and a cellphone in the other?
People should stop interfering with natural selection.
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